Braun Volkmar, Hantke Klaus
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Department of Protein Evolution, Tübingen, Germany
IMID Institute, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
J Bacteriol. 2020 Apr 9;202(9). doi: 10.1128/JB.00058-20.
The transcription initiation signal elicited by the binding of ferric citrate to the outer membrane FecA protein is transmitted by the FecR protein across the cytoplasmic membrane to the FecI extracytoplasmic function (ECF) sigma factor. In this issue of , I. J. Passmore, J. M. Dow, F. Coll, J. Cuccui, et al. (J Bacteriol 202:e00541-19, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00541-19) report that the FecR sequence contains both the twin-arginine signal motif and the secretory (Sec) avoidance motif typical of proteins secreted by the twin-arginine translocation (TAT) system. The same study shows that FecR is indeed secreted by Tat and represents a new class of bitopic Tat-dependent membrane proteins.
柠檬酸铁与外膜FecA蛋白结合所引发的转录起始信号,由FecR蛋白穿过细胞质膜传递给FecI胞外功能(ECF)σ因子。在本期杂志中,I. J. 帕斯莫尔、J. M. 道、F. 科尔、J. 库库伊等人(《细菌学杂志》202:e00541 - 19, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.00541 - 19)报告称,FecR序列同时包含双精氨酸信号基序和双精氨酸转运(TAT)系统分泌蛋白所特有的分泌(Sec)回避基序。同一研究表明,FecR确实是由Tat分泌的,并且代表了一类新的双位Tat依赖性膜蛋白。